The student writers who have authored this book address social issues affecting society today. Rebuilding trust between minorities and police; providing support to survivors of domestic and sexual abuse; improving psychiatric care in hospital emergency departments; resolving flaws in the foster care system, and understanding children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) Ð these are all issues that contribute to the cracks formed in todayÕs social landscape. The writers educate us about how to heal these cracks.